Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
It’s common to feel that technology removes the magic of the world, but Hindu worshippers in Bangalore have shown that it’s all in the approach. Guest Tulasi Srinivas, associate…
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Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality?
Inspired by pop culture depictions of cavepeople, an archaeologist searches for elusive evidence of ancient wooden clubs. ✽ Growing up in the 1990s, I first encountered the ancient…
Submit to SAFN’s column in Anthropology News!
“Throw us what you’ve got!” Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles As the new Section Editor for SAFN, I…
NAPA’s going to the SfAAs!!
NAPA Sponsored Sessions at the 2023 Society for Applied Anthropology Wednesday, March 299:00 am – 10:45 am (W-09) Visible and Invisible Racial Minorities in Response to Social and…
Amahl Bishara discusses her book, Crossing a Line
Interview by Sarah Ihmoud https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34196 Sarah Ihmoud: Crossing a Line offers a refreshing and indeed critical ethnographic approach to understanding Palestinian …
Newfoundland and Labrador food pricing report launched!
CLEAR is excited to share the results of the 2020-2021 Newfoundland and Labrador Food Pricing Project!
Katherine Davies, “Siblings and Sociology” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Katherine Davies’ book Siblings and Sociology (Manchester UP, 2023) draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay…
Ke Li, “Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China” (Stanford UP, 2022)
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this…
A Free Man: The Story of a Menominee Elder
An anthropologist and Menominee Indian Nation citizen recounts the story of independent-minded Frank, a man who kept tribal lifeways in the early 20th century. “A Free Man: The…
Charles L. Briggs, “Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge” (Utah State UP, 2021)
A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge (Utah State UP, 2021) questions intellectual foundations and charts new…
“Lessons from the bush”: an afternoon with Paul Stoller
By Luciana Massaro Writing ethnography can be an intimidating experience. As anthropologists we face the challenge to write and interpret what research participants share with us in a…
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Hi all,From the closure of Nairobi’s iconic Hilton Hotel to palliative care in Uganda, a dodgy app by US immigration & how universities can prepare students better for…
Arve Hansen, “Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life” (Springer, 2022)
In this episode, we discuss Arve Hansen’s new book Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Springer, 2022). In this book, Hansen studies the dramatic changes…
Book Chat: “Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatted about Teri’s recently…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or…
Book launch and cooperation agreement in El Alto
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book “El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad …
Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. In the early 1980s Chris’s father,…
The Mexican River Defenders Fighting for the San Pedro
Nature-loving volunteers in the Mexican state of Chihuahua gather weekly on the banks of the San Pedro River to collect trash. But their aims are bigger. ✽ If…
“Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas” — Interview with Dr. Raj Balkaran
I’ve been hard at work recently with the new book on Shaligram interpretive tradition which is still on track to come out around the end of 2023. But,…
Seminar: Digital Visuality & Popular Culture
Photo by Gian Cescon on Unsplash The seminar “Digital Visuality and Popular Culture” for the MA program CREOLE at the University of Vienna provides an overview about digital…
Miguel Sicart, “Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture” (MIT Press, 2023)
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whether we interact with…
Dining with the Diaspora: Khmerican Digital Gastrodiplomacy
During my first semester of undergrad, I began my truly independent cooking journey—a path many have taken before me, but few survive. After weeks of failing to replicate…
Creating Anthropologists on the Public Stage with Elizabeth Briody & Phil Surles
In today’s episode of This Anthro Life, anthropologists Elizabeth Briody and Phil Surles join host Adam Gamwell to discuss their latest project: Anthropologists on the Public Stage, a…
Book Chat: “Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan” (Routledge, 2021)
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Beatrice Zani, author of the book Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions, published…